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DRAYTON, GRACE GEBBIE. Pen-and-ink Easter card featuring the Campbell Kids.
2088120: DRAYTON, GRACE GEBBIE. Pen-and-ink Easter card featuring the Campbell Kids. 180x230 mm; 7x9 inches, on illustration board, trimmed at top and left side (cropping rabbit's ears and coat tails. Np, likely 1920s
Inscribed in pencil beneath image to Lois Cassatt (aunt of painter Mary Cassatt) and captioned "Hello! Easter Bunnie." Author / illustrator Drayton was known for Fido, Kitty Puss, and other children's books. She created Toodles and Pussy Pumpkins," "Dimples," and "Pussycat Princess," "Dolly Dingle," and illustrated many series in magazines. Her "funny babies" were the mainstay of her tremendous popularity, but she is undoubtedly best-known for her Campbell Soup Kids. According to the Dictionary of Women Artists, she is considered to be America's first woman cartoonist.
Inscribed in pencil beneath image to Lois Cassatt (aunt of painter Mary Cassatt) and captioned "Hello! Easter Bunnie." Author / illustrator Drayton was known for Fido, Kitty Puss, and other children's books. She created Toodles and Pussy Pumpkins," "Dimples," and "Pussycat Princess," "Dolly Dingle," and illustrated many series in magazines. Her "funny babies" were the mainstay of her tremendous popularity, but she is undoubtedly best-known for her Campbell Soup Kids. According to the Dictionary of Women Artists, she is considered to be America's first woman cartoonist.
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